ignite your spring concert!

...with these easy-to-use, step-by-step Rehearsal Tips​to take your (already well-prepared) Spring Concert to the next level...​...and virtually right away!!!

I've developed, tested, and used this for over 35 years and they are powerful, engaging, fun, and effective. Guaranteed. They're from my forthcoming book, Ignite Response to Your ConductingMore tips are coming next week.Meanwhile: try this one out: everyone will love it!

The Last 8 Minutes: Showtime!

Make the Last Eight Minutes the High Point of Your Rehearsal!

Make a formal performance the last part of your rehearsal - complete with the students entering, standing when you come in, playing through a work or section, bowing, acknowledging applause – everything that will happen at the “real” performance.

The sharpened focus that a practice performance creates can make the Last Eight Minutes (L8M) of some of your rehearsals their high point!

On the days you produce “Showtime,” there won’t be the usual loss of attention, eyes on the clock, students getting restless, and gradual fraying of the rehearsal. Eight usually unproductive minutes become highly productive.

​Make Students' Stage Demeanor Look as Good as Their Music Sounds

You and your ensemble actually give two performances at each concert: one is the music; the other is your musicians’ stage demeanor.

By getting demeanor and ceremony in your students’ minds and muscle memories, they’ll be there at concert time.

Work with your ensemble on the L8M and they’ll be sharp and crisp onstage - something that’s impossible when students are quickly told at the Dress Rehearsal “not to talk” onstage. Students’ minds are usually so much on the music, and who’s in the audience...that they frequently forget the stage demeanor piece.)

Click ​here to learn how to make this powerful tool your own...and right away!